Headlines for Wednesday Dec. 19, 2012

Vivante today announced another major milestone in its leading multi-core GPU IP family: The world’s tiniest GPU core designed* to support the Khronos™ Group’s OpenGL® ES 3.0 API based on the GC880 IPleveraging the same ScalarMorphic™ technology of Vivante's industry leading multi-core ultra-threaded GPU cores.

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 18, 2012

HDL Design House today announced availability of MIPI M-PHY and D-PHY solutions in advanced technology nodes. MIPI M-PHY and D-PHY solutions are fully compliant with the MIPI Alliance M-PHY and D-PHY specifications version 1.0, as the latest addition to HDL Design House FlexIP core library.

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 13, 2012

Worldwide semiconductor revenue is projected to total $311 billion in 2013, a 4.5 percent increase from 2012 revenue, according to Gartner, Inc. Due to economic headwinds and an inventory correction, the fourth quarter projections have been revised down from the previous quarter's forecast of $330 billion.

Headlines for Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012

CEVA announced today that it submitted a further proposal to the Board of Directors of MIPS Technologies, Inc. to acquire the operating business of MIPS for $90 million plus the payment on MIPS' behalf of the termination fee to Imagination Technologies Group plc pursuant to MIPS' existing merger agreement, as amended, with Imagination.

Headlines for Monday Dec. 10, 2012

MIPS today announced that it entered into an amendment to the agreement with Imagination previously announced on November 5, 2012. The amendment provides for an increased purchase price of $80 million and the removal of the conditions to closing requiring the approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and that MIPS is not a real property holding corporation.

Headlines for Thursday Dec. 06, 2012

For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, Synopsys reported revenue of $454.2 million, compared to $390.5 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. Revenue for fiscal year 2012 was $1.756 billion, an increase of 14.3 percent from $1.536 billion in fiscal 2011.

Headlines for Monday Dec. 03, 2012

RivieraWaves announced IEEE Wi-Fi 11n certification of its new scalable Wi-Fi 802.11ac silicon IP. The IP is available in a broad range of configurations, supports 802.11n and 802.11ac specifications, single or multiple MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) streams, and up to four transmit and receive antennas.